Keynote Presentations

Own Your Airspace: How To Be Bold, Resourceful, and Agile In Uncharted Territory

Amelia Rose Earhart

Friday, June 20
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. MT

Around the world pilot Amelia Rose Earhart emphasizes to her international keynote audiences that the only aircraft that never experiences turbulence, is one that stays locked up in a hangar. This sentiment is at the core of her inspiring and informational message, which teaches us all to act as pilot in command when life gets bumpy. In 2014, she followed in the footsteps of the American hero she was named after, Amelia Earhart, and flew a small plane (Pilatus PC-12NG) 28,000 miles around the globe to honor her namesake and encourage the future of women in aviation. To accomplish this, Amelia self-funded her instrument and commercial flight training, crafted a strategic business plan to design, fund, and market her around-the-world attempt, grew a large and passionate social following to spread the word, raised close to $2 million in partnerships with international corporations, and more- all while reporting live on the morning news from a helicopter.

Amelia strives to provide unique, practical guidance to create your own flight plan for success.

Learning Objectives:

  • How to identify a route toward your goal, identify your personal “fuel sources,” and unlock methods to navigate through and around the storms that may pop up along your path
  • Why the use of checklists and procedures can free up working memory to allow for maximum focus, creativity, and innovation
  • Ways to rely upon others in your “flight crew” to delegate tasks and increase confidence during change and challenge

After participating in this session, attendees should be able to:

  • Apply divergent creative thinking strategies to complex problems, in order to find a multitude of solutions which incorporate flexibility and agility.
  • Identify and analyze potential obstacles and challenges when working toward a goal, creating a plan to prepare for their potential arrival, instilling readiness and preparedness.
  • Identify personal turbulence endured in their own lives, extracting lessons, growth, strength, and confidence, to gain greater perspective and ability when moving

Learn more about Amelia Rose Earhart

Hayden Vanguard Lectureship: Catalyzing Nursing Innovation

Daniel Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN

Saturday, June 21
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. MT

Dan Weberg, PhD, MHI, BSN, RN, FAAN will share the call to action for nursing to lead a technology-enabled future in which care and innovation create a better healthcare system. A significant gap exists in the nursing profession concerning innovation knowledge and skills. While nurses are inherently problem-solvers at the bedside, formalized education and opportunities to develop expertise in innovation processes, design thinking, and change management are often lacking. This deficit limits nurses' ability to lead and participate effectively in developing and implementing new technologies, processes, and care models necessary for improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape. Bridging this gap is crucial to empower nurses as innovators and fully leverage their frontline expertise to drive meaningful change

Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe 3 disruptions to healthcare that are forcing the need for innovation leadership skills
  • Discuss 3 rules of innovation leadership

Learn more about Dan Weberg

Details Coming Soon

Dr. Kellie Bryant, DNP, WHNP, CHSE, FSSH, FADLN, FAAN

Sunday, June 22
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. MT

Join us for the closing keynote panel discussing simulation and AI, facilitated by Dr. Kellie Bryant!

 

  

Get to Know Our Keynote Speakers

Amelia Rose Earhart is a modern-day adventurer and pilot who, inspired by her namesake Amelia Mary Earhart, achieved her goal of circumnavigating the globe in a single-engine aircraft along a 28,000-nautical-mile route in 2014. With 15 years of experience as a helicopter and breaking news reporter in Denver and Los Angeles, Amelia has also made a profound impact as the founder and president of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, sending numerous teenage girls to flight school. Beyond aviation, she hosts a tech podcast exploring the future of AI in business and transforms her aerial photography into original artwork. A sought-after speaker for leading organizations like Apple, Boeing, and American Express, Amelia is the author of Learn to Love the Turbulence, a guide to navigating life with agility and confidence by adopting a pilot’s mindset. Her story of perseverance and passion inspires audiences to take command of their own journeys.

Dr. Dan Weberg, Executive Director, Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation, Kaiser Permanente is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation, and human-centered patient design with extensive experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings, large health systems, start-ups, and academia. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation and complex systems leadership. Dan supports Kaiser Permanente as the Executive Director of Nursing Workforce Development and Innovation building nursing workforce planning, a system level new grad residency program, and other system level nursing workforce initiatives He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Leadership for Evidence Based Innovation for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice.